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Comment by johnea

2 years ago

“Instead of building airplanes, all they cared about was building the bottom line.”

This is the fundamental flaw of modern american capitalism: it's not that profit is the #1 concern, it's that profit is the ONLY concern.

There's a huge difference between the two, the system we have places no balancing considerations against returns. It's not even really "profit", but stock value.

Comensating employees, especially the c-suite, in stock should return to being illegal.

Do you not think these issues will be poor for Boeing shareholders and beneficial to Airbus shareholders?